What’s even more worrying is that toddlers seem to be getting their hands on increasing amounts of guns. Last year the three-and-under age group was shooting one person a week – which is staggering – but this year they’ve upped the ante and shot 23 people in under 18 weeks.

The vision of a child bearing down on you with a handgun is chilling. But tragically in almost 80% of the incidents toddlers accidentally shoot themselves. This year half of those children died of their wounds – which means nine young lives have been lost in four months.

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While these statistics of toddlers shooting people are truly shocking it’s important to keep them in context, last year over 13,000 people were killed by firearms in US.